Abusing the heck out of immigrants and genociding the native people, I'm pretty sure. Also this:
>Construction of the railroad provided many opportunities for financial chicanery, corruption, graft, and bribery. The greatest financial scandal of the 19th century grew out of the railroad's construction. The president of the Union Pacific helped found a construction company, called Credit Mobilier, which allowed investors, including several members of Congress, to grant lucrative construction contracts to themselves, while nearly bankrupting the railroad.
The difference is that I see that part as the evil. As in who is the "corrupt", "graft" and "bribery" here referring to? It's the government.
We as in the Allied forces? The Great Alliance?
I also live within 200 miles of one of our Japanese Internment Camps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_a_Flag_over_the_Reichs...
I don't see any American flag here.
Did the US won the war alone ? who used the weapons ?
But without US industry/industrialists the war would have very much been lost.
Soviet Russia simply would not have survived. That anyone was left to use weapons was because of America.
Do you know who the industrialists are? They are the people of the United States. The industry IS the public.
That's why the US has so many millionaires. And that's why Europe is such a failure.
The US IS "beholden to private interests", because the CITIZENRY is itself the "private interests".
In other words that term "beholden to private interests" is in contrast to "beholden to public interest". The later "public" does not mean citizens or the people, but is a dog whistle for the exact opposite, that is the rule by an oligarchic "enlightened bureaucrats" that colludes with industries that has a sad case of mistaken identities, and narcissistically associates its survival, its wellbeing, with the public. When in fact it is the abuser of the public.
The reason the "private" is the "private" is to protect the American citizen from government.